RE: [hobbit] Themeing for large displays

[Johan Sjöberg <johan.sjoberg (at) deltamanagement.se>]

We have extended the background gifs (/gifs/bkg-*.gif) with black, to prevent them from repeating on high-resolution screens (my laptop is 1920x1280). I extended them to 1920 pixels wide, but you should be able to make them as wide as you like. But on your big screen, maybe the colored section to the left will be too small?

/Johan

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne (at) staff.telkomsa.net] 
Sent: den 4 februari 2009 09:05
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Themeing for large displays

We have some space available on a video wall, specifically a section of 18 
panels (9 panels wide, 2 high), where each panel is 1400x1050, so a total size 
of 12600x2100.

What I've done so far (since none of the interactive aspects of the Hobbit 
display are usable) is to make a frameset with the main view (50%), the 
critical systems view (30%), and a devmon weathermap (20%). The main view and 
the critical systems view are generated by an extra task running with bigger 
fonts and icon sizes.

I am considering putting the non-green view on as well (in the same column as 
the critical systems view).

However, there are still a number of problems:
1)I have gone as large as I can go with FONT tags and without CSS changes 
(it's a long time since I did any web development, and CSS was quite new then 
...).
2)Some font sizes are hardcoded in the source code (e.g. event log on the bb2 
page). While there is a MKBBACKFONT for the ack log (which I don't use), there 
is no MKBBLOGFONT.
3)The icons (at 64 pixels) are pixelating
4)The background images are too small (by over 3 *)

I managed to take a photo of our section of the video wall, as it's difficult 
to get an idea of just how big it is:

http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/hobbit-videowall.jpg

(I've made a lot of other changes as well since this, but I don't have a 
current photo now).

I am prepared to try and fix some of these issues, e.g.:
1)Fix hardcoded fonts in source (e.g. use MKBBLOGFONT, or even MKBBACKFONT in 
the event log table)
2)Create some icon skins for various sizes (ideally in vector format in svn?)

However, if any other people have similar problems/requirements, I wouldn't 
mind some assistance.

However, I do want to try and fix some of this by today ..

Regards,
Buchan

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